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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Yeah, there's a lot of people who hate Coulson being Back from the Dead.
But Winter Soldier was based around the idea of burning SHIELD to make our heroes not have nearly as much support and be EDGY REBELS. If they were agents of a intelligence agency answering to the United Nations-ish then they wouldn't need the Sokovia Accords.
edited 20th Apr '18 2:31:59 PM by CharlesPhipps
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.It was always meant in the same vein as 70s government conspiracy thrillers like Three Days of the Condor. Heck, the elevator battle is an entire homage to a similar scene in that movie and begins with a shot of the Watergate Hotel.
edited 20th Apr '18 2:56:35 PM by Tuckerscreator
Just in general we shouldn't trust the CIA.
/Controversial opinion.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersIt's the NSA you shouldn't trust
FBI are bros though,CIA is in the middle
edited 20th Apr '18 3:12:19 PM by Ultimatum
have a listen and have a link to my discord serverAnd the CIA did so many wonderful things in Latin America, Africa, and Asia.
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God, I will remenber that Ao S episode with a peruan agent of Hydra.....
that was hilarious and bad at the same time.
edited 20th Apr '18 3:03:26 PM by unknowing
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"Mother of god, the FBI are NOT bros. My civil rights class did some reading... oh god. So bad. So very bad.
Here’s one thing for starters
Many of the subsequent FBI operations centered on the Pine Ridge Reservation, where federal agents had installed a tribal president who was willing to turn over a large, mineral-rich por- tion of the reservation to the government. There, in 1973, the FBI led a paramilitary invasion against AIM activists gathered for a symbolic protest at Wounded Knee, the site of the 1890 massacre. During their 71-day siege the government deployed over 100 FBI agents, nearly 300 federal marshals, 250 BIA po- lice, Army warfare experts, and local vigilantes known as the GOONS (Guardians of the Oglala Nation). In their attempt to remove the activists, government forces fired approximately 500,000 rounds of ammunition into the area. The government followed up with the hundreds of bogus criminal charges in- tended to keep AIM leaders tied up in court and to deplete the organization’s funds. From 1973 to 1976 the GOONS, often using arms supplied them by the FBI, murdered at least sixty-nine AIM members and supporters on the Pine Ridge Reservation and assaulted an- other 340. The FBI, which exercised criminal jurisdiction on the reservation, was too “short of manpower” to investigate these murders. In 1975 it was revealed that AIM’s national security chief, Doug Durham, was an undercover FBI operative. Among other things, Durham had been AIM’s liaison with the Wounded Knee legal defense team and had authored the AIM documents consistently cited by the FBI to demonstrate the group’s alleged tendencies toward violence.
Here’s the 82 page law review article that came from.
The FBI is... not our friend.

How many mothballs does it take to keep the Helicarrier from getting eaten by moths, anyway?
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!